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The Human Factor - In a nutshell

What is your new book all about?It’s about the biggest political event of the second half of the twentieth century—the end of the Cold War. Linked to that was the...

Archie Brown

Eurolegalism - The wide angle

In a sense, Eurolegalism is a book about how the EU attempts to govern and what impact it has on its member countries.Critics like to rail against the EU’s supposedly...

R. Daniel Kelemen

Pineapple Culture - In a nutshell

Plucked from tropical America, the pineapple was brought to European tables and hothouses before it was conveyed back to the tropics, where it came to dominate U.S. and world markets....

Gary Y. Okihiro

The Fall of the Wild - In a nutshell

The Fall of the Wild is a book about the ethical challenges of conservation in a time of accelerating wildlife losses and growing scientific and technological power. In an age...

Ben A. Minteer

Broke and Patriotic - The wide angle

Broke and Patriotic is an effort to better understand and give voice to an important segment of the population that most of the country so often neglects. It also speaks...

Francesco Duina

God in Gotham - A close-up

Browsing readers might try Chapter 5, “God’s Urban Hothouse.” Anyone doubtful about religiosity in early and mid-twentieth-century Manhattan might profitably turn to this chapter, which describes Manhattan as a modern...

Jon Butler

On the Judgment of History - The wide angle

The book examines three cases: the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1945-6, at the end of the Second World War; the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa at...

Joan Wallach Scott

Children of the Revolution - The wide angle

This is not just a political story, because that only tells part of what is fascinating about France in this period. What are the images we have of France in...

Robert Gildea

An Aristocracy of Critics - A close-up

Part of the backdrop to the Commission on Freedom of the Press is the acrimonious relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration and the press. I knew a bit about...

Stephen Bates

Escape from Rome - The wide angle

If historians don’t try to explain why the world has turned out the way it has, they are falling down on the job. Yet academic historians often have trouble seeing...

Walter Scheidel

Signs from the Future - A close-up

I hope that readers who are simply browsing the book will immediately recognize the difference between “philosophical warnings” and “trigger warnings.” While the latter aims to alert students and viewers...

Santiago Zabala

Academically Adrift - A close-up

In recent years, many colleges and universities have been encouraging students to work in groups as a way to accomplish simultaneously two goals that were seen to be complementary. College...

Richard Arum

Fresh - A close-up

The chapter on eggs shows how and why refrigeration used to be controversial, which these days many people will find hard to imagine. It also contains a good story about...

Susanne Freidberg

All the Missing Souls - A close-up

Pages 2 through 5 state what the book is about, its objectives, the historical significance of the story, and my role in it. Allow me to stitch together some of...

David Scheffer

Copycats and Contrarians - The wide angle

Copycats and Contrarians explores our instincts to follow others from a uniquely multidisciplinary perspective. It draws on insights and evidence from economics, finance, psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and behavioral ecology....

Michelle Baddeley

Power at Ground Zero - The wide angle

I have long believed that city building is a story of implementation for which plans are but the foundation for debate and action, and that action is driven by politics,...

Lynne Sagalyn

Black Culture, Inc. - A close-up

“The Racial Return,” chapter 2 in the book, reveals, through the lens of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, how strategic partnerships between organizations in the nonprofit...

Patricia Banks

Aging by the Book - A close-up

Midlife anxiety thrived in other forms of Victorian print culture as well. One good example is soap advertisements. At mid-century, an array of mass produced products were put on display...

Kay Heath

Questioning the Veil - The wide angle

In the past I wrote books that were historical in nature in so far as they relied on archival research or on existing historical research; I focused on structural rather...

Marnia Lazreg

Tech - In a nutshell

I’m French. And I’m a sociologist. This book is about Silicon Valley. It’s the one I wanted to read when I started my field work in Northern California in 2015....

Olivier Alexandre

Conservatism and Racism and Why in America They Are the Same - A close-up

A section of Chapter 8 on the ascendancy of Reagan to the presidency is titled “It’s the Ideology, Stupid.” President Reagan is a central character in the book, because he...

Robert C. Smith

CO2 Rising - A close-up

Named after Charles David Keeling, a distinguished carbon-cycle scientist, the carbon atom Dave serves, I hope, as a literary device that aids in revealing the fascinating paths that actual carbon...

Tyler Volk

Partisan Policy Networks - In a nutshell

This book examines how many policy research organizations, like think tanks, have transformed from non-partisan information producers into partisan allies pursuing ideological policy goals. Most policymaking today is structured by...

Zachary Albert

Tyrants on Twitter - In a nutshell

What is this book all about?Tyrants on Twitter makes three main points. The first point is that we’ve been experiencing a period globally for about the last 15 years of...

David L. Sloss

CO2 Rising - The wide angle

The Chemical Age connects the sources of human misery throughout history—famine, plague, and war—and follows historical currents to their unpredictable destinations, including world wars and environmental destruction. A force behind...

Tyler Volk

Psychopathy Unmasked - The wide angle

At its core, Psychopathy Unmasked is a work of skepticism. Psychopathy is unquestionably one of the most culturally captivating mental health diagnoses. It pervades crime thrillers and true-crime narratives, making...

Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen

Betting on Biotech - A close-up

Chapter 5 opens with an anecdote, a true story.A few years back I was giving a talk in Taiwan about the state of the biotech sector there. The government had...

Joseph Wong

Masters of Craft - The wide angle

There are three broad forces occurring in society today that in concert are leading to these jobs becoming cool. First, how we classify taste is shifting. Consumers are questioning what...

Richard E. Ocejo

The Story of Silver - In a nutshell

This book tells the story of the greatest commodities market manipulation of the 20th century – one that was perpetrated by the larger than life Nelson Bunker Hunt, who, at...

William L. Silber

Dog Economics - A close-up

Each chapter offers interesting research findings interpreted from an economic perspective. “Chasing the Tale” reviews what evolutionary biology tells us about the transformation of wolves into dogs. It also considers...

Aidan R. Vining

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